Imelda Gruber
Imelda Gruber 
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| birthday | August 11, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Schlanders | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 165 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Single seater | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | SV Arunda Schleis | ||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Imelda Gruber (born August 11, 1986 in Schlanders ) is a former Italian natural track tobogganist . She was runner-up in the single-seater European champion in 2006 , won two medals at junior world and European championships and achieved five top 10 placements in the World Cup .
Career
Gruber won her first medal at international junior championships with second place at the 2005 European junior championship in Kandalakscha . Before that, she had already finished in the top five twice. In the Intercontinental Cup she won the overall ranking in the 2003/2004 season and came second overall the next winter.
After these performances she was used in the 2005/2006 season in the World Cup . While she finished her first World Cup race in Longiarü only in 14th place, she reached sixth place in the next two races in Kindberg and Olang . The then 19-year-old celebrated her greatest success at the end of January 2006 at the European Championship in Umhausen , where she won the silver medal just three hundredths of a second behind her teammate Christa Gietl . Three weeks later she achieved third place at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the World Cup, she then finished sixth and seventh in the races in Grande Prairie and fifth in the season finale in Oberperfuss , making her sixth place in the overall World Cup.
Despite these results, Gruber started again exclusively in the Intercontinental Cup in winter 2006/2007, which she won just ahead of her compatriot Tamara Schwarz . After this season Gruber did not take part in any competitions.
Sporting successes
European championships
- Umhausen 2006 : 2nd single seater
Junior World Championships
- Casies 2002 : 6th single seater
- Kindberg 2004 : 4th single seater
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2006 : 3rd single-seater
Junior European Championships
- Kreuth 2003 : 5th single seater
- Kandalaksha 2005 : 2nd single seater
World cup
- 2005/2006 season : 6th overall single-seater World Cup
- 4 places among the top six
Intercontinental Cup
- Overall victory in the single-seater in the 2003/2004 and 2006/2007 seasons
Web links
- Imelda Gruber in the database of the International Luge Federation
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| SURNAME | Gruber, Imelda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian natural track tobogganist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlanders , South Tyrol, Italy |